Daily Texan News Articles Scraped from University Website

A collection of news articles from The Daily Texan, a student newspaper at the University of Texas at Austin. The dataset was scraped from the publication's website and harvested by Jacob Schmidt into the Texas Data Repository. It was last updated on March 18, 2024.

Use Cases

• Conduct topic modeling or trend analysis based on the corpus of news articles.
• Train or fine-tune language models on domain-specific text from a university newspaper.
• Analyze journalistic writing style and vocabulary over time based on the article collection.
• Study local or campus events and issues reported in the student publication.

Strengths

• Data is sourced directly from a specific, established publication (The Daily Texan).
• The dataset was last updated on 2024-03-18, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count, file formats, and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• The scraping methodology and temporal coverage of the articles are not specified.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data structure and completeness require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

The Daily Texan website.

Collection Method

Scraped from the website.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2024-03-18 08:50:36.

Geography

Likely focuses on the University of Texas at Austin and surrounding areas.